DESCRIPTIONLists the contents of a given tree object, like what "/bin/ls -a" does
in the current working directory. Note that:
the behaviour is slightly different from that of "/bin/ls" in that the
paths denote just a list of patterns to match, e.g. so specifying
directory name (without -r) will behave differently, and order of the
arguments does not matter.
the behaviour is similar to that of "/bin/ls" in that the paths is
taken as relative to the current working directory. E.g. when you are
in a directory sub that has a directory dir, you can run git
ls-tree -r HEAD dir to list the contents of the tree (that is
sub/dir in HEAD). You don’t want to give a tree that is not at the
root level (e.g. git ls-tree -r HEAD:sub dir) in this case, as that
would result in asking for sub/sub/dir in the HEAD commit.
However, the current working directory can be ignored by passing
--full-tree option.
OPTIONS
<tree-ish>
Id of a tree-ish.
-d
Show only the named tree entry itself, not its children.
-r
Recurse into sub-trees.
-t
Show tree entries even when going to recurse them. Has no effect
if -r was not passed. -d implies -t.
-l
--long
Show object size of blob (file) entries.
-z
\0 line termination on output.
--name-only
--name-status
List only filenames (instead of the "long" output), one per line.
--abbrev[=<n>]
Instead of showing the full 40-byte hexadecimal object
lines, show only a partial prefix.
Non default number of digits can be specified with --abbrev=<n>.
--full-name
Instead of showing the path names relative to the current working
directory, show the full path names.
--full-tree
Do not limit the listing to the current working directory.
Implies --full-name.
paths
When paths are given, show them (note that this isn’t really raw
pathnames, but rather a list of patterns to match). Otherwise
implicitly uses the root level of the tree as the sole path argument.
Output Format<mode> SP <type> SP <object> TAB <file>Unless the -z option is used, TAB, LF, and backslash characters
in pathnames are represented as \t, \n, and \\, respectively.
This output format is compatible with what --index-info --stdin of
git update-index expects.When the -l option is used, format changes to<mode> SP <type> SP <object> SP <object size> TAB <file>Object size identified by <object> is given in bytes, and right-justified
with minimum width of 7 characters. Object size is given only for blobs
(file) entries; for other entries - character is used in place of size.AuthorWritten by Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Completely rewritten from scratch by Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
another major rewrite by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>DocumentationDocumentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano and the git-list
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